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In-App Subscriptions Made Easy

There are various types of subscriptions: recurring, non-recurring, free-trial periods, various billing cycles and any possible billing variation one can imagine. But with lack of information online, you might discover that mobile subscriptions behave differently from what you expected. This article will make your life somewhat easier when addressing an in-app subscriptions implementation.

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EIP Designer: Bridging the Gap Between EA and Development

This article presents the EIP Designer project, an Eclipse-based tool for introducing integration patterns into an EA design, providing fluidity and continuity while filling the gap existing between EA practices and concrete software development.

Silverlight Dynamic Languages SDK

The Silverlight Dynamic Languages SDK provides a bridge between Silverlight and the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR). The SDK allows developers to use dynamic languages, running on the DLR, to build Silverlight applications. With this interoperation, dynamic languages can leverage the feature-rich Silverlight Framework Class Library (FCL), and dynamic languages can call into other dynamic languages, e.g., IronPython calling Managed JScript.

The SDK also includes services to build new languages on top of the DLR, including a shared, dynamic type system and a language hosting model. It also facilitates hosting dynamic languages inside of different hosts. Silverlight can be viewed as "simply an application host used to host the DLR," using the same services that can be utilized by an application developer.